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March 1, 2017

United Kingdom: prisoners with serious mental health problems face urgent treatment delays

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Health Mental health United Kingdom

Almost 75% of prisoners are facing delays in being transferred to NHS hospitals to receive urgent treatment for serious mental health problems.

March 1, 2017

OAS questions Brazil Ministry of Justice about prison violence

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Violence Brazil

For the international organization, Brazil has a “inescapable legal duty to take concrete steps to guarantee inmates’ rights to life and physical integrity”.

February 28, 2017

Indigenous interpreter shortage "adding to high incarceration rates" for Aboriginal people

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Australia

Some Aboriginal people are being kept in custody for longer than required because of a lack of interpreters in South Australia, lawyers representing Indigenous people claim.

February 28, 2017

Jamaica: correctional officers, recruits to be polygraphed in prison corruption clampdown

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Jamaica

The National Security Ministry has announced that all correctional officers and recruits are to be polygraphed as part of new measures aimed at cutting the smuggling of cell phones and other contraband into correctional facilities.

February 28, 2017

Thailand : Thai prisons violate human rights, report says.

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Asia Thailand

Prison conditions contravene UN treaties barring torture and stipulating minimum prisoner rights, group says. Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards with inmates routinely shackled, beaten, and stuffed into overcrowded cells, an international human rights group said. Thailand also…

February 28, 2017

Thailand: report calls for urgent prison reforms

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Asia Thailand

Paris, Bangkok - Thailand’s ongoing failure to enact comprehensive prison reforms has created conditions for human rights violations to be rife in its prison system, FIDH and UCL said in a new report published today. The report, titled “Behind the walls – A look at prison conditions in Thailand aft…

February 28, 2017

On the verge of a big change in penal system reform in Azerbaijan

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Justice Azerbaijan

Probation Service will be created in Azerbaijan by the Order of the President Ilham Aliyev, to improve the penal sphere, the humanization of punishment and expanding the use of alternative measures without isolation from society.

February 28, 2017

Thaïland: rights group says Thai prisons fall short of world standards

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Asia Thailand

Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards, with inmates routinely shackled, stuffed into overcrowded cells and forced to work in harsh conditions, an international human rights group said Tuesday.

February 28, 2017

Colombia’s prison crisis escalating as Ombudsman calls for closures

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Colombia

Colombia’s Ombudsman on Monday called for the closure of some of the nation’s prisons due to extreme overcrowding and a chronic humanitarian crisis that is unfolding, reported El Pais newspaper.

February 27, 2017

Colombia : Cancillería confirma ejecución de colombiano en China

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America South America Colombia

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February 27, 2017

France : comment fonctionne le quartier d'évaluation de la radicalisation ?

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Europe Justice Facilities France

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February 27, 2017

USA: private prison deprived inmates of heat and hot water for months, lawmaker finds

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Material conditions United States

The 284 women housed in C-dorm at Gadsden Correctional Institution in Quincy lived for months without hot water or heat, faced flooded bathrooms daily and endured water rations when the septic tanks were jammed with food waste.

February 27, 2017

Belgium: évasion à la prison belge de Lantin, le détenu a été aidé par trois complices

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Europe Protest Belgium

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February 27, 2017

Grande-Bretagne : une prison privatisée confiée à Sodexo fait scandale

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United Kingdom

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February 27, 2017

Canada: family doctors push to ban solitary confinement in prisons

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America North America Discipline Canada

Canada’s family doctors are calling for an all-out ban on the use of solitary confinement in Canadian prisons.

February 27, 2017

Spectaculaire évasion dans une prison belge

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Protest Belgium

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February 27, 2017

Australia: lift game on violence to women

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Women Oceania Violence Australia

Women locked up for unpaid fines and red tape stopping others from escaping domestic violence were among issues that left a United Nations expert unimpressed during an inaugural visit to Australia.

February 27, 2017

République Dominicaine : le quotidien de Christophe Naudin dans la prison de Najayo

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Dominican Republic

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February 26, 2017

Thirteen escape in prison break near Manila

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Philippines

At least 13 ‘high-value’ detainees facing drug charges stormed out of Philippine jail by cutting through metal grilles.

February 24, 2017

Kenya: location determines how the law treats you, audit finds

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Africa Kenya

Where you live goes a long way to determining whether you get justice or not, a new audit of the criminal justice system reveals.

February 23, 2017

United Kingdom: worst offenders could die in jail under plans for whole-life sentences to be examined by MSPs

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Long-term prisoners United Kingdom

Scotland’s worst criminals would die in jail under plans for whole-life sentences to be examined by MSPs.

February 23, 2017

Some inmates to get better conditions after overpopulation in Turkish jails due to Gülen case arrests

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Material conditions Overcrowding Turkey

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February 23, 2017

Chopped off heads, torn out hearts in brutal Brazil gang war

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Brazil

Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, hundreds of inmates watched from a Manaus prison yard as the sky lit up with fireworks, paid for by the gangs that dominate the jail system. The revelry continued well into the next day, and inmates celebrated with their wives and girlfriends. But then the…

February 23, 2017

Finland: rise in foreign inmates increases need for digital leap in prisons

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Europe Finland

A 56-percent increase in the number of foreign prisoners in the last decade has caused Finnish detention facilities to develop their electronic communicating capacity. Digital services have been piloted in prisons for some six months.